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Sarah Palin Confronts Alaska Protester With ‘Worst Governor Ever’ Sign [Video]

It’s pretty rare, given all of her handlers, to catch Sarah Palin in an unscripted exchange with a critic. But here’s an uncomfortable clip showing Palin confronting an Alaskan teacher who’d welcomed Palin’s crew with a “WORST GOVERNOR EVER” sign. More

Did Bristol and Levi Reunite to Make a Reality Show? [Rumormonger]

Last week, a rumor made the rounds in the Alaskan blogosphere: Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston were getting back together. They would announce their engagement , then they would wait a couple weeks—and then announce a reality show. More

US Company Set to Ship Billions of Gallons of Water from Alaska to India

Photo via Alaskan Dude India is hurting for water. With rapidly growing populations of people and a rising middle class that is mimicking the wasteful water consumption habits well known here in the United States, coupled with poor water management practices, India is set to be one of the first parts of the world hit by a major water crisis . Still, does that mean shipping water from Alaska all the way to India is a smart solution? On… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Obama to open 1.8 million Alaskan acres to oil drilling

The Interior Department is offering oil and gas leases on 1.8 million acres of Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve while promising to protect critical migratory bird and caribou habitat. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says the Bureau of Land Management will offer 190 tracts with bids to be opened Aug. 11 in Anchorage. The sale is one of dozens, mostly in Western states, that Salazar announced in November. The petroleum reserve covers 23 million acres on Alaska's North Slope. That's an area slightly smaller than the state of Indiana. added by: JanforGore

Obama Administration Opens Up 1.8 million Acres Of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve

photo via flickr Fridays in Washington D.C. are often days in which bad news is dumped. The idea is that the news will get lost over the weekend while Americans are recharging for the week ahead. So maybe that’s why the Interior Department announced Friday that they will offer oil and gas leases on 1.8 million acres of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve, a ecologically sensitive area important for bird migration. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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No Palin Setback Too Small for Couric Who Skips How Palin ‘Acted in Good Faith’

Demonstrating that no setback for Sarah Palin which can be portrayed as a rebuke is too insignificant or relevant for Katie Couric, she made time on Thursday’s CBS Evening News to inform her viewers about a disputable technical violation of arcane law: One little word will cost Sarah Palin a small fortune. Today, state investigators in Alaska said a legal defense fund she set up while she was Governor was illegal. They said the use of the word “official” on the fund’s Web site implied it was endorsed by the office of the Governor. Palin’s lawyer says she will return the fund’s nearly $400,000. Unmentioned by Couric? How Timothy Petumenos, the investigator/counsel for the Alaska Personnel Board which issued the ruling, absolved Palin of blame. “Petumenos found the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee acted in good faith and relied on the advice of lawyers when setting up the fund,” the Anchorage Daily News reported in an afternoon posting. PDF of the board’s report , which noted: “Governor Palin complied fully with AS 39.52.210(a) by declining to take any proceeds from the Trust once the Complaint was filed pending resolution of this matter.”

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Hydropower Without Dams: Alaskan Village Powered Entirely by New Hydrokinetic River Turbine

photo: Business Wire A couple weeks back when writing about whether hydropower really should be considered a clean power source , there were a couple varieties that were left out. Thanks to the remote town of Eagle, Alaska we can highlight one of them. It’s there that Alaska Power & Telephone has installed a new hydroki… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Post-Palin Alaska has largest debt burden in US

teapartiers: please take notice and stop letting sarah palin play you like suckers. this is what a modern fiscal conservative looks like. “Sarah Palin has long sold herself as a fiscal conservative, arguing against the Democrats' health overhaul on the grounds that the nation simply can't afford it. But when the former vice presidential candidate resigned as governor of Alaska in the summer of 2009, she left the state with a 70 percent debt-to-GDP ratio — the highest state debt burden in the United States. That's according to data compiled by the Washington Independent's Megan Carpentier, who notes that Alaska has a debt burden similar to “that of Jordan and Palin's favorite health care resource, Canada, and a higher ratio than Ghana, Cote d

Jennifer Aniston’s Fashion Tour Fizzles

Poor Jennifer Aniston’s overseas Bounty Hunter junket was one big fashion fail. She tried, though, she really did. After all the lame stateside outfits recently, Jen kinda went…

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LL Cool J Vetoes Sarah Palin, Fox News

LL Cool J isn’t exactly cool with Sarah Palin and her pals at the Fox News Channel. The rapper-actor has called out Alaska’s favorite moose-stew maven and her FNC…

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